My Soothsayer's Impeachment
Emblems of the regal scorn
Feathers, yacht and crown
How I long to bring them down.
Harbingers of gloomy morn
Fenris - eats the sun
How he loathes us, every one
Eaters of the bourgeoise,
Patriarch and Pope
How I wish I'd got a rope
Anarchist or albatross?
Acrobat or ape?
How I long to change my shape.
Elongated walrus
Eggman his disgust
How to cure this wanderlust?
Sitting here on Beachy Head
Feathering my shin
How I'd love a chance to sin
Harbouring great mounds of guilt
Sifting them like sand,
More slowly than I'd planned
Laughingly recalling how
Aching in my head,
I crawled from bed to bed
Stupidly, I now have found
Dumbly discovered,
Like bats we once smothered...
Nothing that I didn't know
Revealed itself,
Time to climb back on the shelf
Contributors: | P, KD, Roland, Stacy, TG, Bop, The Agent Apsley, trad. |
Poem finished: | 31st January 1998. |